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Another Hollywood family with a famous name is inviting you into their home for eight weeks through the miracle of reality television.

They’re the Kardashians, a clan whose notoriety stems most recently from daughter Kim’s performance in a homemade sex video with a now ex-boyfriend (singer Ray J, brother of Brandy) that was never meant to be made public, but came out anyway.

In an interview in which questions about the porn video were decreed to be off-limits, Kim, 26, declared that the size of her family and the relationships between its members are the real attractions of the new series, titled “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and premiering this week on E! Entertainment Television.

“I think what’s really interesting about our family is there are so many of us,” she said on the phone from L.A. as she inventoried the family’s members.

Kim is the daughter of the late Robert Kardashian – a prominent L.A. attorney best known as a member of O.J. Simpson’s famed “Dream Team” of defense attorneys – and Kris Jenner, now married to ex-Olympian Bruce Jenner.

Kim has three siblings from that Kris and Robert’s marriage (which ended in divorce) – sisters Kourtney, 28, and Khloe, 22, and brother Robert Jr., 20.

Also seen in the show are the two young daughters of Kris and Bruce – Kylie, 10, and Kendall, 11 – and two other Jenner offspring (from a previous marriage to actress Linda Thompson) – Brody, 24, and Brandon, 25.

Two other Jenner children, with first wife Chrystie – Casey, 27, and Burton, 29, numbers nine and 10 – are not in the show, but eight is enough.

“It’s very chaotic at all times, but at the end of the day, we love each other so much and we are each other’s best friends,” Kim said.

Kim lives in a Beverly Hills condo, although “Keeping Up” was filmed primarily at Kris and Bruce’s home in a gated community in Calabasas, Calif., about 30 minutes west of Los Angeles.

In the half-hour series premiere, Kourtney and her mother get drunk while tasting various liquors in preparation for a party marking Kris and Bruce’s anniversary (they’ve been married for 16 years). In addition, Kim takes a quick trip to New York with pal Brittny Gastineau to appear on Tyra Banks’ talk show, where questions about the porn scandal were not restricted.

If the reality shows on E! were arranged on a family tree-type diagram, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” would be the newest branch. Brittny, of course, starred with her mother in E!’s “Gastineau Girls.” Brittny was also seen in another E! reality show, “Filthy Rich Cattle Drive.” One of the other participants on that show was Kim’s sister, Kourtney.

For Kim, the new show presents an opportunity to broaden her public image and her family’s.

“What sets us apart is that even though we grew up with privilege, we all work,” she said. “I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl. . . . I’m excited for people to see how normal we are.”